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diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b52eb6587a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8 @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.2 1997/03/31 03:12:06 weingart Exp $ +.\" +.Dd 31 May 1995 +.Dt INSTALLBOOT 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm installboot +.Nd install a bootstrap on a UFS disk +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm installboot +.Fl n | Fl v +.Ar ufsboot +.Ar bootxx +.Ar rawdev +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm installboot +is used to install a "first-stage" boot program into the boot area +of a UFS disk partition, and initialize the table of block numbers the +.Ar bootxx +program uses to load the second-stage boot program. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width flag +.It Fl n +Do not actually write anything on the disk. +.It Fl v +Be verbose, printing out the block numbers that +.Ar bootxx +will use to load +.Ar ufsboot . +.El +.Pp +The arguments are: +.Bl -tag -width ufsboot +.It Ar ufsboot +the name of the second-stage boot program in the file system +where the first-stage boot program is to be installed. +.It Ar bootxx +the name of the prototype file for the first stage boot program. +.It Ar rawdev +the name of the raw device in which the first-stage boot program +is to be installed. This should correspond to the block device +on which the file system containing +.Ar ufsboot +is mounted. +.El +.Sh BUGS +.Nm installboot +requires simultaneous access to the mounted file system and +the raw device, but that is not allowed with the kernel +.Nm securelevel +variable set to a value greater than zero (the default), so +.Nm installboot +only works in single-user mode (or insecure mode - see +.Xr init 8 ). +.Sh "SEE ALSO" +.Xr disklabel 8 , +.Xr init 8 |